Woy Woy Landfill Gas Abatement Facility

Woy Woy Landfill Gas Abatement Facility is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located at the Woy Woy Waste Management Facility, approximately 15km south of Gosford on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It was registered in August 2013. The facility sits within a region characterized by coastal residential development, light industrial zones, and natural coastal bushland. The Central Coast area typically experiences a high rainfall, temperate climate, and the soils are generally composed of sandy loams and sandstone-derived clays.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve capturing potent methane gas emitted from decomposing organic matter, which includes both legacy and non-legacy waste. The gas is actively captured through a dedicated collection system and combusted to generate renewable electricity, significantly reducing the volume of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.

The host site, Woy Woy Waste Management Facility, has operated since 1974 and serves as the primary solid waste facility for the southern Central Coast community, receiving roughly 85,000 tonnes of waste each year. The carbon project has an extensive regulatory history, having transitioned from a revoked early Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method, later varying to the 2015 Landfill Gas Method, and eventually updating to the 2021 Electricity Generation methodology in April 2022. Initially contracted in April 2015 under AGL Energy Services Pty Limited, the project successfully fulfilled its fixed delivery contract (CAC210760) by supplying 130,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth before the contract concluded in June 2022. In November 2023, the project proponent was officially varied from AGL Energy Services to LMS Energy Pty Ltd.